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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Frontispiece; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables and Charts; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Locating the Dead: Space, Landscape, and Cemetery Organization; 2 The Tomb: Architecture and Decoration; 3 Gifts for the Dead: Function and Distribution of Grave Goods; 4 The Dead: Bones, Portraits, and Epitaphs; 5 Funerary Beliefs: Differentiation, Continuity, and Change in Ritual; 6 The Global and the Local: Romanization, Globalization, and the Syrian Cemetery; Postscript; Appendix 1. Sites; Appendix 2. Tomb Types |
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List of Online AppendicesBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Syria.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies. |
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Syria. |
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Burial -- Syria.
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Burial. |
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Syria.
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
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Death.
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Syria -- Antiquities, Roman.
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Death. |
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deaths. |
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Classical antiquities. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jong, Lidewijde de. Archaeology of death in Roman Syria. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2017] 1107131413 9781107131415 (OCoLC)959035037 |
| ISBN |
9781108224222 (electronic book) |
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1108224229 (electronic book) |
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1107131413 |
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9781107131415 |
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